An email address is required to use the app but no other information - including a name, phone number, date of birth, residential address and demographic information - is needed, although providing the first two details is "recommended".

The app's privacy policy states that location information - recorded through QR code scans - will be stored only on the user's device and deleted 31 days after first being collected. Other information will be stored by the Ministry of Health for "the duration of the New Zealand government's Covid-19 pandemic response, then it will be deleted".

Use of the app is voluntary and the Privacy Commissioner has been consulted on it, according to the privacy policy.

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